Blood Moon Magick
Whiskey Witches, #2
by S.M. Blooding
Narrator: Kalinda Little
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Released: July 15th 2017
Publisher: Whistling Book Press
Genre: Supernatural Thriller
The Book Junkie Reads . . . Review of . . . BLOOD MOON MAGICK (Whiskey Witches, #2) . . . The first installment in to the world of Whiskey Witches and Paige with her cast of crew, family, friends, co-workers had captured my supernatural thrill seeking curiosity. The second installment brought on more mayhem, magic, and a bigger cast of characters, twist and turns, and Paige and Dexx. Yet again the drama, mystery, suspense and all came with the intriguing lure of more. Paige carries things well with all that has been revealed to her. She has much to get to get adapted to or acquainted with. The read felt like an extension of book one and flowed well. Gave me an added depth of world building. And some more diverse characters. I recommend this read for those looking for some excitement, magic, mayhem, strength and more. But I do advise to read Whiskey Witches first. All things are possible.
Narrator Review of . . . BLOOD MOON MAGICK (Whiskey Witches, #2) . . . As with the first regular speed was a not keeping pace with my imagination. Kalinda gave Paige her own specific identity one that carries over from book one. There still that clear, concise and distinctive diction for each.
I received this audiobook as part of my participation in a blog tour with Audiobookworm Promotions. The tour is being sponsored by S.M. Blooding. The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it.
Going back to Denver should have been easy.
Old life. Old routine. Ten kinds of "all good." However, with her
gifts open, the paranormal world isn't going to let her have that easy life. It
turns out her partner of the last five years is a vampire and has been for
several decades. He's also the regional paranormal protector. So when a few
shapeshifters go missing, he gets the case. But there's also a demon killing
those shapeshifters, a demon she can't hunt because she's still an open target
for possession. Not to complicate matters, Dexx isn't about to let Paige out of
his sight. Bringing a demon hunter to a shapeshifter party only makes things
that much more interesting. But when he gets bitten, the entire game changes.
Frankie lives in beautiful Montana with her Darling Dork, his two part-time girls, and their cat, Tesla. She enjoys creating with her wonderful husband, doing everything from crochet, to sewing, to art, and, of course, writing. She's lived a pretty colorful life, giving breath to her stories. She's dated vampires, werewolves, sorcerers, weapons smugglers, U.S. Government assassins, and slingshot terrorist. No. She is not kidding.
Frankie lives in beautiful Montana with her Darling Dork, his two part-time girls, and their cat, Tesla. She enjoys creating with her wonderful husband, doing everything from crochet, to sewing, to art, and, of course, writing. She's lived a pretty colorful life, giving breath to her stories. She's dated vampires, werewolves, sorcerers, weapons smugglers, U.S. Government assassins, and slingshot terrorist. No. She is not kidding.
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Kalinda Little is a 28 year old web developer who started playing around with audio and never stopped. Currently based out of Portland Oregon, she has spent time all up and down the West Coast, including several years is Ashland where she worked backstage at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She is a chapter leader for the Nine Bridges Writers, a nonprofit that aims to assist and support writers in all genres, by providing resources and critique. While she only started recording professionally in April of 2016, she had over two hundred hours of amature recording and editing available before that point. To date, she has narrated 27 books, with another 3 set to come out before the end of 2017.
Kalinda Little is a 28 year old web developer who started playing around with audio and never stopped. Currently based out of Portland Oregon, she has spent time all up and down the West Coast, including several years is Ashland where she worked backstage at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She is a chapter leader for the Nine Bridges Writers, a nonprofit that aims to assist and support writers in all genres, by providing resources and critique. While she only started recording professionally in April of 2016, she had over two hundred hours of amature recording and editing available before that point. To date, she has narrated 27 books, with another 3 set to come out before the end of 2017.
Q&A with Narrator Kalinda Little
How did you end up recording audiobooks? I
remember listening to audiobooks from a very young age. I still have cassette
tapes of some of my favorites. There was a full cast rendition of The Hobbit,
all the Harry Potter books and a lot of Redwall. The stories seemed to come to
life when they were being read like that. I could tell each of the characters
apart just by how they were read. Later I found a collection of Sherlock Holmes
radio dramas in my local library and that added a whole new flavor.I did a bit
of acting in high school and then worked with SOU and the Oregon Shakespeare
Festival and quickly learned that while I’m not great on stage, I have a wide
vocal range. If anyone ever asks voice acting is very different from
regular acting.At some point I stumbled onto a community that recorded Podfic:
fanfic as audiobooks. These people aimed for fandom to be all inclusive and it
served as a practice field for those readers who wanted to become
professionals. I loved it hearing new stories featuring my favorite characters,
and if these people could do it, then I could too.I started with a couple of my
own stories. Looking back it’s obvious I had no experience, but there it was,
I’d proved I could do it. And I kept doing it. There are nearly 150 fanworks
that I recorded out there on the internet if you know where to look. Some of
them are better than others.I was eventually pushed into the professional
market by someone in that community. They were talking about how they had taken
these skills I had and gone professional. I put out a few auditions on a lark.
I’d heard all the stories about rejection and how you have to apply hundreds of
times before you get anywhere. Except all that practice paid off. I was asked
to produce a book from the first batch of auditions. The book was One
Night With A Dragon, and it was the kind of easy Romance story that I knew I
could handle. After that, well, I’d done it once, I could do it again.
I’ve kept recording and I don’t plan on stopping any time soon.
What’s your favorite part of recording a new book? The same
part that anyone would be happy about when getting a new book. I fall in love
with the characters and fight with them through their troubles like any reader,
and I try to put that into my reading. If it’s a tense action scene I try to
keep that tension in my voice. If it’s a happy scene I’ll read with a smile.But
I guess what makes recording a book different from reading it (at least for me)
is figuring out the characters. I love doing voices and picking the right voice
is definitely important to me.
What’s your process? Whenever
I get a new book I try to ask for the author’s thoughts on the characters. What
they think the tone should be. Once that’s settled I read maybe the first few
chapters, but no more. Other professionals may look down on me for it, but I
find recording a story without knowing how it’s going to end helps me put more
of my first reaction into the recording. More surprise when something
unexpected happens, more pain when someone is hurt, more passion and relief and
joy.Editing is a whole other mess. I do all my own editing. That means going
through, taking out mistakes, and choosing which take was the best one. An
audio file that ends up being half an hour long, might start out being 45
minutes. Then once I have a clean copy, I get to the fun part: adding effects. Writers
have so many tools they can use, be it punctuation, italics, capitalization,
formatting, all of which will let a reader know something is happening.
Sometimes I can translate those choices into audio: speaking louder and more
forcefully for caps-lock. Other times it’s not so easy. The Whiskey books have
been a great chance for me to stretch those skills. A demon shouldn’t sound
like a shifter, a memory should sound different then when someone is possessed.
I’ve done my best to both keep things clear to the listener and add an extra
element to the story that you wouldn’t get just reading words on a page.
So character voices? I know a
lot of narrators don’t do voices, but it’s always seemed natural to me, maybe
because of my early exposure to full cast audiobooks and radio plays. Once
the author tells me what they think of the character I take that and the
physical description from the book to choose a voice. I try to pick voices that
both fit the character (do they have an accent? What’s their personality and
profession?) and set them apart from the other characters. The listener should
always know who is speaking. This goes beyond just accent. The volume,
cadence and personality all affect what voice I choose. I once had a character
that thought of the world as one big joke, so I wore a half sneer whenever they
spoke. I A Barrel of Whiskey we were introduced to a whole new set of
characters. I gave detective Gomez a slight accent, because of her name and
description, but she’s also a dryad, so i gave her a softer more flowing voice.
Chuck made his entrance as a wolf-man so he got an accent where I spoke through
my teeth. There are times when I’ve changed my mind and re-recorded, but
it doesn’t happen often.
What equipment do you use? I record
and edit in Audacity. I have several microphones, my primary setup is a turtle
beach headset, but I now have a Mikme as a portable alternative. I’ve heard
great things about snowball mics, but I tend to move around too much to get
consistent audio. I talk with my hands.
What do you have coming down the line? I’ve got
a few stories I’m working on at the moment. I’ve been recording a lot of Pulp
stories recently and the next in that vein is Lady ACTION: The Sands of
Forever. An action / spy novella by Ron Fortier. Then Plausible
Deniability: Book Four of The Chronicles of the Harekaiian by Shanna
Lauffey, a novella about time travel.Then of course there’s Witches of the
West where Paige comes to my hometown of Portland Oregon to once again up
the ante between the Witches, the shifters, and the rest of the supernatural
community.
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